Warren woman gets prison time for shooting her children with BBs

WARREN — A 30-year-old Warren woman was sentenced to three years in prison today for shooting plastic BBs at four of her six children and allowing her brother to shoot them at four of her six children.

Colleen Stytle, one of three young adults living at 1725 Larchmont Ave., has been in the Trumbull County jail since her arrest in August.

Three of her children are now living with their father; the other three are in foster care.

Stytle pleaded guilty before Judge Andrew Logan to four counts of felony child endangering — charges that said she recklessly tortured or cruelly abused daughters age 11 and 10 and boys age 7 and 5 in January and February 2013.

The counts involving her brother were complicity to child endangering, and she also pleaded guilty to five counts of misdemeanor child endangering and one count of misdemeanor falsification.

The falsification involved telling the oldest child, then 11, to lie about whether the children were being neglected when Trumbull County Children Services came to the house to check on their welfare.

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